Amy Walsh Scott

“The only monster you need to worry about in this life is the one that stares at you from the mirror each morning. You tame him, make friends with him, and the rest of life is nothing you can’t handle.”
― Charles Martin, Chasing Fireflies

“If manhood is passed down, if it is a mantle cut from the cloth of one and draped across another, it is not done so using titles or accolades. Not hardly. It occurs there—in that spout now resting neck-high—pouring down the spine and into the belly in a language that has never been transcribed, but that every boy on the planet understands and has always understood.”
― Charles Martin, Chasing Fireflies

“If God can make a firefly’s butt light up like a star, then anything is possible. Anything.”
― Charles Martin, Chasing Fireflies

“Although he called himself a Christian, I had a hard time correlating his vicious gossip, bigoted expressions, and arrogant manner as such. I often thought if God’s heaven was filled with creatures like him, maybe that’s not where I wanted to end up.”
― C.C. Tillery, Whistling Woman